Blood On My Notebook: Dispatches From The World Of Professional Boxing is a paperback book written by John J. Raspanti. It was published in 2019 and is available at Amazon.com.^[17]

John J. Raspanti is one of America's premier boxing writers. He is a chief lead writer and editor-in-chief for the California based company Maxboxing. He wrote for the Internet website doghouseboxing.com in the past. He was also a co-host of The Ringside Boxing Show.

Raspanti is also coauthor of the Amazon.com bestseller Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy. The movie The Fighter was based on the life of Micky Ward. It made 129 million dollars at the box office domestically and internationally combined. The documentary series 48 Hours investigated Gatti's premature death which occurred in 2009. The book is forwarded by Randy Shields. Shields is a former #1 ranked contender in three weight divisions and a former North American Boxing Federation professional boxing champion.

Blood on My Notebook is a paperback book that contains a collection of colorful stories from Raspanti's career as a boxing journalist.

He has been covering boxing since 2009 but has been a lifelong fan of the sport.

He first started watching boxing on television with his father in the 1960's.

The book contains fifty chapters.

Current boxers are covered such as Gennadiy Golovkin.

Golovkin lost a decision to boxing superstar Canelo Alvarez in 2018.

Chapter four of the book is titled “Some Thoughts On The Passing Of Smokin' Joe Frazier".

Frazier fought Muhammad Ali three times and George Foreman twice.

Chapter ten is called “Coffee With A Warrior".

It describes Raspanti's encounter with Bobby Chacon. Chacon was a regular on American Broadcasting Company's Wide World of Sports in the 1970's and 1980's. He was on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel where he was interviewed by Larry Merchant in 2001. Chapter seventeen covers the Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns bouts of 1982 and 1989. Chapter eighteen tells the story of Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay. Their second bout was controversial as some thought that the bout which was held in Lewiston, Maine was fixed. Clay later changed his name to Muhammad Ali. Chapter twenty seven covers the "Thrilla in Manilla" boxing match of 1975 with Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Chapter forty two is about Joe Louis. Louis was the World Heavyweight champion for twelve years.

Chapter forty five is titled “A Tale Of Two Johnny’s".

Raspanti tells the stories of former champions Johnny Bratton and Johnny Saxton. Both men attained money and notoriety through boxing and lost it all. Bratton made $400,000 through his professional boxing matches. Both won titles in their early twenties, lost them soon after and they fought against each other. They were broke and out of boxing by the time they were twenty eight. Saxton won the lineal world welterweight title in a controversial fashion against Kid Gavilan. Saxton was managed in part of his career by mob figure Frank Palermo.

The following is an excerpt from a maxboxing.com article written by Raspanti:

Raspanti wrote the following in the book:

Raspanti was on an episode of The Grueling Truth with Mike Goodpaster in 2019. He spoke in length about his new book.